No Safer Kinder Hatred
How Racial Hatred and Ethnic Violence Shaped Zimbabwe
$23.49
- Paperback
384 pages
- Release Date
16 February 2027
Summary
Frank Sayi grew up in Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe, in the 1970s. His childhood straddled two very significant periods in his country’s history, both of which heavily influenced his memoir. The first was the war of liberation (1975-1979), closely followed by the post-independence internecine war (1981-1987).
Crucially, Frank was raised in a native reserve in colonial Rhodesia, a country under white minority rule, governed by Ian Smith’s racist and illegal regime. Native reserves were places…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781529427349 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1529427347 |
| Author: | Frank Thabani Sayi |
| Publisher: | Quercus Publishing |
| Imprint: | riverrun |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 384 |
| Release Date: | 16 February 2027 |
| Weight: | 280g |
| Dimensions: | 32mm x 130mm x 196mm |
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Critics Review
[A] visceral account of the birth of a nation. It’s an unflinching, forceful and essential memoir, a remarkable gateway to the rich and complex story of Zimbabwe. I read it in one sitting * Brian Chikwava *
No Safer Kinder Hatred is a brave examination of how violence flows between family and society. It traces the origins of that violence and that society to an empire in its death throes * TLS *
Frank Thabani Sayi
Frank Thabani SAYI was born in Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe, in the late 1960s, on the cusp of the war of independence or The Bush War, to overturn a century of racial subjugation. After Zimbabwe’s independence from White Rule, he bore witness to and survived the Gukurahundi Massacres orchestrated by Robert Mugabe’s militias in Matabeleland in the early 1980s.
He came to England on a scholarship, and he has previously worked as a nurse in cardio-thoracic medicine, intensive care, and gender-reassignment surgery. For twenty-five years, he served as a Police Officer specializing in Child Sexual Exploitation, Black-on-Black Violence, and Modern Slavery and Child Criminal Exploitation. Most recently, he worked as a lecturer at the Open University in the Law and Business Faculty.
He holds a Doctorate in English and Humanities and a Masters in Cultural and Critical Studies, both from Birkbeck, University of London. Frank is also an associate editor on the Brief Encounters Journal at SOAS. His first short story, Shadows, was published in the Mechanics Institute Review in 2015.
In his spare time, he enjoys long walks and exploring the beautiful Buckinghamshire countryside.
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